Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-11-18
PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD.


Nov. l6rh, the National Grange com
menced its twenty-frst annual session
I'm the city of Lansing. Michigan. 1t
will meet under the most favorable cir
cumstances. The Governor Of the State,
CYRUS G. Luce, is, and has been for sew
eral years, at the head of the Grange in
his State. In the matter of organization
substantial progress has been made.
Nearly twice rs many new Oranges
have been instituted as in last year, or
in any one year for many years past.
Hundreds of Oranges in all parts OF the
country have been reOrganized. Rhode
Island, the only State in the Union that
never had Grange, comes to the front
with nearly every township organized.
In matters of legislation, much progress
has been made. The work of the Grange
in the direction of railroad control has
been crowned with success, and the III
,erstate Commerce law has come TO stay.
Laws. State and National, controlling
the sale of adulterated dairy products,
have been passed, and sustained. Ell
forts 70 remove the tariffs on farmers
raw materials" and leave existing
high tariffs on manufactured goods,
have been defeated. TaX-reform bills
have been passed. Better men in all
parties have beer. elected to office. The
great temperance cause has been all
vanctd and in thousands of ways In
thousands of neighbOrhOods, the bnsi-
ness, social and educational interests OF
the farmer. and of all his family, has
been advanced. In no one year since
its birth, twenty one years ago, can the
Grange point to so many and such great
practical results, and it comes to its
years of manhood, its majority. flushed
with success, and with the brightest
hopes and prospects for It's future.
"The Grange is National or it is moth
ing. 1t has created a sentiment of Ma
tional patriotism. brought about fra
rernal relations between the more in
telligent and progressive farmers of all
sections that never before existed, and
which no organization not National
could possibly have effected. 1t is the
general belief that if the Grange had
been established twenty years sooner
than it was the war would have been
averted; ut any rate, the spirit Of Nh
tional brotherhood has taken such deep
root i'm the hearts of the great body of
farmers that compose our Order, and
that sentiment is deepening and
Strengthening with each meeting of the
National Grange that they understand
each other so well that all the arts of
the demagogues and the corrupt political
press will be pOwerless TO lead them
against each into meaningless political
conflicts i'm the future
There may be narrow minded, short
sighted leaders who would restrict the
Grange to State lines and endeavOr 10
get up Il sort of State prejudice, but the
selfish purposes of such men are so APP
parent that their efforts TO tear down or
subvert must result in ignominious TAIL
ure. Everything is TO be gained by
strengthening the sentiment of National
brotherhood. everything to be lost by
exciting and fostering local or State pref
udice. and intelligent, patriotic Patrons
will never submit patiently to any
scheme or movement TO check or SUBJ
vert their grand organization IN its
great work of unitingsthe hearts and
hands of the farmers of all sections in a
common cause for common purpose.
Then let the sentiment of Nationality of
brotherhood be cherished by every in
telligeut, patriotic member of our grand
organization, let our leaders in every
State meet and mingle together ut our
National and State reunions, and their
doings be published to the world
Missouri Patron
"The gro with of the Order has been
so steady and satisfactory during the
last eight of ten months in the United
States. Not in two or three of the
States; but in each of the thirty-eight
States. thing that was never known
before that every man and woman who
has a spark of Grange fire in his or her
bosom. ought to be inspired to fan that
spark into blaze, and let the brothers
and sisters come together and have a
grand Grange boom everywhcr". After
twenty years of hard work the road is
at last open to victory. Will not all the
farmers aud their families now step in,